This is the seventeenth in a series featuring posters used here previously.Having a format makes it easier submitting something here. Work consumes my time, not allowing me to tend to my duties here as much as I want. Today's subjects are common sense and communication.
We are not given information to increase our understanding. Know-ledge is to be used to improve
our lives.
Many of my clients know plenty about what to do to improve their lives and experience healing from past trage-dies. Applying what they've learned is another matter.Common sense is wisdom, applied knowledge.
Often, we know what to do.
Communicating is a thorny matter. What is said is not necessarily what is understood."One life showing the way is better than ten tongues trying to explain it."
The woman was kind but practical. The woman pointed to her house. She said, " In the back of my house I have a porch needing a paint job. If you paint it with the flat green paint I have, I'll give you a hundred dollars."
"Ma'am, I would be happy to do that," the man with threadbare, dirty clothes replied.
Four hours later, he approached her. Painted splattered on his clothes. Sweat poured from his forehead because of his earnest effort.
"Lady, I painted every inch with the green paint, includ-ing the hubcaps," he said, "But, it wasn't a Porsche, it was a Mercedes!"
What is expres-sed is not necessarily what is heard.
This is where having another reflect back to us what he or she heard helps. Had she done so, the woman is this story would have spared herself the grief of driving a car painted with house paint.
Wishing each of you a terrific, great and grateful day.
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